View of the four story, Hotel Princeton in Buena Vista (Chaffee County), Colorado. The frame hotel has brick chimneys, dormer windows, and a front rounded turret with windows, a conical dome and finial. A lake at City Park is next to the hotel grounds. The frame Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church and the brick schoolhouse building are on the street nearby. Snow is on Mount Princeton in the Collegiate Range in the distance.

Date

[between 1893 and 1900?]

Notes

Accession number: 91.324.2; History Colorado.; Condition: stained.; Formerly F-28,557; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Buena Vista, Hotels"; Photographer's stamp printed on verso reads: "The most beautiful and natural summer and health resort in Colorado. Nestled in the Valley of the Arkansas, near the foot of the famous Princeton, Yale and Harvard Peaks. About 125 miles from Denver; on the Denver & Rio Grande, the Union Pacific and the Colorado Midland Railroads. The surroundings are most picturesque; good trout fishing; beautiful drives; and natural Hot Springs, which are celebrated for the cure of Rheumatism, Cutaneous Diseases and all Lung and Liver Complaints. The new hotel Princeton has just been completed and newly furnished throughout. Modern in every respect, excellent table board. Write for rates to []. A.L. Roeder & Co., Props, Box 164, Buena Vista, Colorado."; Title and attribution inked on original negative and reproduced in photographic print.; R7200044569